Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are any number of things which can make publishing an immensely unprofitable business. One big one is to have the cost of paper rise (many a U. S. publisher felt the pinch when newsprint rose from $42.50 to $50 a ton in 1938). Another is curtailed advertising. A third, most dangerous in the long run, is losing the confidence of the public. Last week British publishers were squeezed in all three directions...
Newsprint. The pre-war price of newsprint in Great Britain was ?11 55 a ton. Immediately after war began it jumped to ?17. Last week, at ?21 108 ($86), newsprint's price had almost doubled (while in the U. S. newsprint still sold for $50). A further rise to ?25 had been ordered by the Ministry of Supply for July 1, but after the invasion of Norway (two-thirds of Britain's newsprint came from Scandinavia, the rest from Canada and Newfoundland) the increase was expected to take effect immediately...
JUDGE HARDY & SON;--Empires may rise and civilizations fall, but homely virtues have almost reached the horrifying proportions of Edgar Guest. But what is even more horrifying is that Judge Hardy pictures in their own peculiar way, are quite appealing, is that Judge Hardy pictures in their own peculiar way, are quite appealing, at times downright good. "Judge Hardy & Son" is one of the passably good ones and one of the more horrifyingly Guestian ones. It just depends on how much folksiness you can stand in order to see a fair-to-middling' picture...
...years the paper was a non-partisan record of events in Austria, a solemn register of Europe's wars and quarrels. The Zeitung saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, the splendor and decline of the Hohenzollerns. It published the official texts of all Austrian treaties, declarations, laws and constitutions. Franz Josef died in 1916; two years later the Imperial eagle on the Zeitung's, masthead was replaced by the single-headed eagle of the Republic...
...itself, high blood pressure produces nothing worse than violent headaches, dizziness, insomnia. Everyone has experienced a rise in his blood pressure during a football game, an examination, a domestic crisis. After several years, continued pressure hardens the arteries, stretches and swells the overburdened heart. Death may result from arteriosclerosis or heart disease...